Simply put, a deist believes there is a deity who made the world, and set it going. That deity does not thereafter intervene in the affairs of humanity, although in some versions of deism he did initially structure it so that it will be more rewarding to actually virtuously and wisely rather than wickedly.
A theist also believes in a deity, but believes that this deity cares about the way the world goes to the extent of making his (or her) views known to human beings by revelation, and even from time to time intervening directly in human affairs.
Thanks. I suppose I'm a theist.
The words are from Latin 'deus', a god, and Greek 'theos', which also means a god.
Yes, I did know that.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
This deity in Numbers 31 ordered Joshua and co to kill men women and children except the women who had known not a man (In other words virgins) whoppee for the Israelites.
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aussieguy55 wrote:This deity in Numbers 31 ordered Joshua and co to kill men women and children except the women who had known not a man (In other words virgins) whoppee for the Israelites.
We had an excellent thread on this topic a couple of years back. TBM's who were not mopologists used to dare to post here back then.
The way that thread unrolled was one of the reasons why the poor innocents felt they had to withdraw to safer territory. They kept on gallantly trying to defend 'The Lord' who told the warriors to 'keep the virgins for themselves' when they had killed all the other women. I even tried to help them at one stage by suggested the warriors needed those girls to do embroidery ... but for some reason nothing seemed to work for them, and in the end they all fell silent. Sad, it was.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
aussieguy55 wrote:This deity in Numbers 31 ordered Joshua and co to kill men women and children except the women who had known not a man (In other words virgins) whoppee for the Israelites.
We had an excellent thread on this topic a couple of years back. TBM's who were not mopologists used to dare to post here back then.
The way that thread unrolled was one of the reasons why the poor innocents felt they had to withdraw to safer territory. They kept on gallantly trying to defend 'The Lord' who told the warriors to 'keep the virgins for themselves' when they had killed all the other women. I even tried to help them at one stage by suggested the warriors needed those girls to do embroidery ... but for some reason nothing seemed to work for them, and in the end they all fell silent. Sad, it was.
I tried using the search function to no avail. If you can find the link it'd be much appreciated.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
(I used Lemmie's trick of using an * as a substitute for one letter)
I'm sorry, but that is not the thread in question. The thread to which I referred was a good deal longer ago, and the discussion was not just a passing reference. I should not have said it was 'a couple of years back' - it was considerably more distant.
Were not some posts lost at the time of the Big Crash on this board?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Chap wrote:We had an excellent thread on this topic a couple of years back. TBM's who were not mopologists used to dare to post here back then.
The way that thread unrolled was one of the reasons why the poor innocents felt they had to withdraw to safer territory. They kept on gallantly trying to defend 'The Lord' who told the warriors to 'keep the virgins for themselves' when they had killed all the other women. I even tried to help them at one stage by suggested the warriors needed those girls to do embroidery ... but for some reason nothing seemed to work for them, and in the end they all fell silent. Sad, it was.
I tried using the search function to no avail. If you can find the link it'd be much appreciated.
- Doc
This one?
son of Ishmael wrote:So...umm...Just what did the lord do with his share of the virgin girls?
huckelberry wrote:... I do think it odd to imagine the story is intended to picture Midianite women being taken for sexual purpose....
Chap wrote:I like the fact that Huckleberry can imagine a world in which a young Israelite warrior is victorious in battle and drags a captive girl back to his tent (but only after first conducting a digital examination to check her virginity, otherwise as a God-fearing guy he would have cut her throat like the Lord said to do, naturally), and then ... and then just asks her to darn his socks, and cook his breakfast. Huckleberry must be a really, really nice guy.